As Kentucky Lawmakers Debate Full-Auto Switch Ban, Some Making Dumb Arguments

I don’t like this trend of pro-gun states passing bans on full-auto switches. These devices are already illegal at the federal level, and while I recognize that states passing such laws allows them to prosecute when the feds can’t or won’t, it’s still troubling.

Alabama did it recently, and now Kentucky is considering it.

While I get the arguments why they might, it’s strange that I have a problem with an argument against a gun control bill, but here we are. Why do I have an issue with it? Well, let’s get to it, shall we?

Currently, Kentucky and New Hampshire are the only two states without any local laws.

Both are also permitless carry states where voters strongly support gun rights.

Lawmakers who opposed the measure Tuesday expressed concern that the proposal could impede those rights.

“I know that a lot of people that are torn on this,” said Rep. Bill Wesley. “I gave my people back home my word that I would always stand for the Second Amendment right.”

Other critics of the proposal worry criminals will find a workaround to the law if passed.

“A forced reset trigger on a Glock costs about $60. I just know that if we take these off the streets, criminals are going to switch to those,” said Rep. TJ Roberts. “It’s always a moving target. The technology always seems to outpace the law.”

Honestly, that’s the argument?

Full-auto switches are already illegal at the federal level. That should be more than enough reason to oppose the bill. Ignoring that tidbit, there’s the fact that because they’re already illegal, criminals aren’t getting them lawfully. Roberts’s argument here is beyond ridiculous because it seems to suggest that a state law would be effective in the first place, but criminals will just move to something else in this case.

They won’t.

Yeah, FRTs are out there, and they’re cool and make it so someone can fire a weapon just as fast as full-auto without crossing the NFA’s line. Yes, if so-called Glock switches vanished tomorrow, they’d probably move to those.

But to suggest that a state law might somehow make them vanish is to lend credence to the idea that gun control actually works, which isn’t remotely accurate.

Of course, in all fairness to Roberts, I don’t know what else he might have said. He might have acknowledged the law wouldn’t work in the first place, then presented this as a “what if” scenario, should they somehow rid the streets of the full-auto switches, and not as if it’s a foregone conclusion that the law would work.

I hope that’s what he meant.

What I know is that these devices were banned pretty much from the moment they were invented. They’ve never been lawful, yet they keep showing up on the streets. State-level bans haven’t exactly stopped anything, either, so there’s no reason for it to happen this time around.

This is a waste of time. Kentucky could be doing so much more, such as naming more people Kentucky colonels and eating fried chicken, because fried chicken is love. Anything but this nonsense.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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